About me

Cathy Foster - coaching and counselling people for their lives and relationships

Have you found yourself in difficult situation and you need help? Are your relationships (partner, family, friends or work) in trouble? Do you want to get somewhere in your life through personal development?

I help and support people through:

Life coaching and psychotherapy

Relationship coaching for individuals (in a partnership or for singles)

Couple counselling

Executive coaching and mentoring, career coaching

You discover how to deal with your problems as an individual, and maybe along with your partner, or your team members, so that you can achieve your dreams.

You will find your way to the heart of the issues you face, and change yourself through my encouragement, challenge and support. You may have one issue you want to deal with which causes you stress, or life might be messier than that and perhaps that makes you angry or anxious, perhaps to the point of panic attacks. Or perhaps you are stuck and want to unstick. As your Life Coach I create a safe environment where you will not be judged as you to gain clarity on what you want, and together, we work to make that possible in your

life

love

work

and/or play

and in ways that are practical, confidence building and motivating for the life you live. This will show up in the energy and health you bring to your life.

What happens

You will find yourself listened to, and sometimes challenged, to ensure that what you do is robust, enduring and brings about the outcome you desire. Along the way, given my relationship counselling specialty, it is quite possible that you will develop a better relationship with yourself as well as with others. This will allow you to carry your learning and personal development back into your life in ways that steady you as you face the issues of the everyday (and those of the not-so-everyday).

What I do

We work towards what you would like to happen in each session while holding in mind the bigger picture of what you want from the sessions overall. You will find yourself listened to in a way that releases you to find your own solutions to the issues you face. While, on occasion it may be appropriate at times to touch briefly on the past in order to process them and move on, it is more important for you to develop the resources so that you can make the changes you want with encouragement, positivity and confidence.

While sometimes we might be sitting down and talking, we might also be standing up and moving around, so this is an active, not passive experience. This is true of couple counselling as well as working with individuals.

How I can deliver what I do

My heart-warming yet unwavering approach comes from years of practical experience of coaching people in their life and relationships - at times under extreme pressure. The confidence to do this was originally born of repeated success in Olympic sailing. Clients of mine have become some of the world's top sailors.

Training, qualifications & experience

Certified Facilitator of Clean Language and Symbolic Modelling

NLP Master Practitioner

Over 650 coaching hours about life issues in the 12 years up to now

Over 800 hours in relationship counselling, mostly with couples, in the last 8 years

Countless hours as an Elite Sports Coach working for 20 years at Olympic level in international Sailing

Other areas of coaching I deal with

Couple counselling

Fees

Fees

I offer a range of coaching/counselling options that meet different needs, so it's best to contact me with a short description of the issue(s) you have. Then I can respond with a price for the appropriate package. If you want to talk or meet me to check the 'chemistry' between us, I offer a half hour FREE meeting (face to face or by phone or Skype).

Individuals - session length, number and frequencySessions are 1.5 hours long, and the number varies with the issue. The frequency is up to you. After an initial batch of sessions, most people go on to take occasional sessions as and when they need them.

Couples and other relationships between two peopleEverything depends on how 'hot' your issues are, and how quickly you need to find resolution. Sessions are 2.5 hours long to enable you are properly 'heard' and to make reasonable progress each time. Again, the frequency is up to you.

Call me 07771 784441 or email me cathy@cathyfoster.co.uk with a short description of your issue so I can give you my very best response.